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ADJUSTABLE CHAIR.

No. 365,720, Patented June 28, 1887.

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UNITED STATES CLARENCE EUGENE ALLEN AND IRA DIVIGHT HATCH, OF Sl/VANTON, VER- MONT SAID HATCH ASSIGNOR TO SAID ALLEN.

ADJUSTABLE CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,720, dated June 28, 1887.

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To all whom, it; may concern.-

Be it known that we, CLARENCE EUGENE ALLEN and IRA DWIGHT HATCH, citizens of the United States,and residents of Swantomin the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Chairs and Lounges; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specificar 5 tion.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of an easy-chair. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of an invalid-chair. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of a bed-lounge. Figs 1 and 5 are detail parts.

Our invention relates to invalid-chairs, obstetric chairs, easy-chairs, and bedlounges combined; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

As the several figures of the drawings are views in elevation, and as the two sides of the structure are similar in construction, it will be understood that while some of the parts are mentioned in the plural they are only shown 0 singly. The figures of the drawings, however, are sufficient to fully illustrate the invention to persons familiar with the art to which it appertains.

Referring by letter to the accompanying 5 drawings, 0 designates the inclined side rails or sills of the structure, saidside rails being notched in their upper edges near their rear ends, as at N. These rails 0 are provided with feet at their rear ends, and serve as the rear 0 legs of the structure.

F designates the front legs or supports of the sills, said legs F being hinged at their upper ends to the sills or side rails 0, near the front ends of the latter. Braces R, hinged at 4 5 their rear ends to the side rails or sills O, are provided each with a notch near its front end, said notches being adapted to be brought into engagement with rounds h, which latter connect the front supports, F.

D designates the side rails of the chainback, the lower ends of said side rails I) being hinged tothe sills G, and also connected to the sills G by thehinged connected armsoo. Iron plates P connect the lower ends of the arms 0 to the sills O.

The upper ends of the hinged or jointed braces E I are pivoted to the side rails D, the lower portions, I, of said jointed braces engaging either of the notches N of the sills O. Said portions I have upward extensions Z beyond thejoints.

The lower end of a canvas seat and back, H, is secured to a cross-rail between the upper or front ends of the sill O, and extends up and back over and under the cross-rail S at the upper end of the side rails D of the back, and is connected to a roller, Y, journaled in bearings secured to the lower edges of said side rails D. On its projecting ends the roll Y is pro vided with ratchets L, which are engaged by detents T, and revolves on tenons M when operated. The detents T prevent backward motion of the roller Y while said detents are in engagement with the ratchets L. The side rails of a foot-rest, B, are hinged at their up per or rear ends to the front ends of the sills O by metal plates A, having notches 2 in their, lower edges, which notches engage pins V in the sides of the sills 0, near the front ends of the latter.

Thumb-nuts T are secured upon threaded studs projecting from the sills C, and are used to connect the foot-rest with the chair, and to permitit to be disconnected therefrom when desirable or necessary.

The feet of the legs or supports, and also the foot-rest are provided with casters,which permit the chair to be easily moved. from place to place. At its front end the foot'rcst is pro vided with hinged legs V, which may be folded up to permit the foot-rest to be inclined, or may be unfolded to elevate the foot-rest when the structure is to be used as a lounge. or bed.

lVhen the back of the chair is let down to a horizontal posit-ion, the lower portions, I, of the braces E are turned to a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, and serve, by their extensions Z, to support the back of the chair in position to form the lounge.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. In a folding chair, the combinatioinwith folding legs, the notched metal plates A, and :0 the notched and inclined sills, of the hinged the thumb-nuts T, substantially as specified.

jointed back-supports E I, having the exten- In testimony whereof we affix onrsignatures sions Z, and the hinged back D, front legs, F, in presence of two witnesses. 5 and braces K, substantiallyas specified. CLARENCE EUGENE ALLEN.

2. The combination, with the notched and IRA DWIGHT HATCH. inclined sills, the hinged back and the hinged Vitnesses: jointed back supports, and the pins W and OWEN E. SHERIDAN, the canvas H, of the foot-rest provided with the RIGNEY MARVIN. 

